If I had known that last weekend was going to be robbed from me by the lighting industry, I probably would've just slept through it.
It all started, innocently enough, on Saturday. In the past couple weeks, my home — built in the latter half of the last decade but still lit entirely by old-school incandescent bulbs — had a couple lights burn out, so I trekked to Home Depot in search of replacements. It occurred to me once I got there that I should probably be buying something other than incandescent, given the proliferation of CFL and LED alternatives; they use dramatically less energy, and theoretically, they can last a lot longer. And traditional incandescents are going the way of Google Reader: Wattage restrictions...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/1/4482634/led-led-me-astray-the-home-lighting-misadventure-that-brought-me-full-circle
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